A Classically Elegant New Orleans Home

June 24, 2016

When I saw this 1926 New Orleans Mediterranean Revival featured in Southern Living, I immediately fell in love. It belongs to designer Brannan Geary and her husband Scott. The home was built by Scott’s great-grandfather, and has survived almost 90 years of hurricanes and “regrettable design fads” with both its structural and architectural integrity in tact. Brannan took a light approach to New Orleans’ signature formal style with a more livable elegance, and the classic results will surely transcend the next 90 years. Images and captions below via Southern Living…

Brannan limited the dining room to only two dark wood antiques: a set of graceful yet sturdy French dining chairs and a classic sideboard.

Located right off the foyer, the dining room was deliberately designed to be a lively greeting for guests—the palm tree muraled walls in particular.

Gracious curtains in a warm rust color and an 8- by 11-foot trompe l’oeil screen make the necessary formal, old-world references.

“Children (and parents) deserve rooms that will grow along with them,” says Brannan, who used the classic Colefax and Fowler fabric Bowood in her daughter’s otherwise neutral room. Learning to live with antiques comes with the territory of being a child in New Orleans. So Brannan wisely incorporated an older cabinet as a bedside table and outfitted it with a pair of fragile but not priceless porcelain lamps.